Butlers Quotes

1. "The point of a knighthood for British actors is to enable them to play butlers."
Author: Alec Guinness

2. "We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally."
Author: Andrew Lloyd Webber

3. "At the end of the week, you told me that you were going on a long trip, but someday you would come back and marry me."Arianna giggled. "Did I really say that?" she asked, mortified at her bold younger self."Yes, but I suppose it doesn't count if you don't remember. Oh yeah, not to mention the fact you told two of the butlers, three maids, and your favorite cook you wanted to marry them also"
Author: B. Kristin McMichael

4. "Did they like being maids & butlers? Before you answer this consider everything you've ever read about English history after Robin Hood and before he Who. Your choices were: serving, being served, being killed by Jack the Ripper. So, the employee class made the best of it and got with the program. It was indoor work, after all. And as a wise man once observed, "You're gonna hafta serve somebody." (Bob Dylan, C. 1497-1580). And it beat mining."
Author: Chris Kelly

5. "Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are.Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends,And we have friends and no butlers.(excerpt from 'The Garrett')"
Author: Ezra Pound

6. "Sheepish butlers' surgical bottle battles" a tongue twister p.364"
Author: Haruki Murakami

7. "In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day."
Author: Joachim Du Bellay

8. "I am one of those servants – butlers usually – who respectfully points out when their master is about to do something stupid: "You should probably only burn the document once the blackmail has been completed, m' lady."
Author: Joe Dunthorne

9. "We parents are an extension of our children, not the other way around. We are their conscience until it becomes their responsibility to tell themselves what's right and necessary. We are their butlers until they are fully able to get the items they need and can clean up after themselves. We are their cheerleaders until they learn how to develop their own confidence and motivation. We are their counselors until they are able to take the lead in making the tough decisions that affect them."
Author: Larry Tanner

10. "Far from being tortured, the prisoners [at Guantanamo] are being handled literally with kid gloves (or simulated kid-effect gloves). The U.S. military hands each jihadist his complimentary copy of the Koran as delicately as white-gloved butlers bringing His Lordship the Times of London. It's not just unbecoming to buy in to Muslim psychoses; in the end, it's self-defeating. And our self-defeat is their surest shot at victory...Even a loser can win when he's up against a defeatist. A big chunk of Western Civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, the jihadists figure: hey, why not us?"
Author: Mark Steyn

11. "I am a duke, you know. If I can't perform a miracle here and there I might as well be a butler in expesive clothes." He brushed at the sleeve of his well-tailored brown coat. "And butlers don't get to dance with attractive women."
Author: Suzanne Enoch

12. "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers."
Author: W. Somerset Maugham

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